On April 4, 2019,听Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) and Judd Morrissey (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) discussed the intertwining of a documentary poetics of place and the poetics of virtual and augmented reality as it has evolved through their recent practices, then stage a conversation about collaboration in sounding the copper veins of modern architecture and telecommunications infrastructures. Their dialogue will circle around听LAMENT; Or, The Mine Has Been Opened Up Well鈥�an interactive augmented and virtual reality installation comprising poetry, documentary video and sound developed in collaboration with artist/technologist Abraham Avnisan and writer/composer Mark Booth,听which will be up at Counterpath for the month of April.听尝础惭贰狈罢听excavates sites, histories, and languages of mining in a poetics of generative telegraphy, geophysical extraction, and the multilingual hauntings of forgotten laborers鈥攑roposing a critical archaeology of contemporary network culture in response to the extraordinary material, political, and environmental legacies that make cloud computing possible.